Table of Contents

Preface; Part A: General and Philosophical Issues; K.S. CHAUDHURI: Evolution of History of Mathematics: Some Trends; IVOR GRATTAN-GUINNESS: History or Heritage? A Central Question in the Historiography of Mathematics; R S KAUSHAL: Abstraction and Structural Analogies in Mathematical Sciences; V. LAKSHMIKANTHAM: The Invented and Propagated Theories in the Origin of Mathematical Sciences; NORBERT H SCHLOMIUK: Andre Weil: The Man and the Historian of Mathematics; Part B: History of Mathematics in India; G. S. PANDEY: The Vedic Concept of Infinity and Infinitesimal System; JENS HOYRUP: Mahavira's Geometrical Problems: Traces of unknown links between Jaina and Mediterranean mathematics in the classical ages; VOLKER PECKHAUS: Dignaga's Logic of Invention; RAI GYAN NARAIN PRASAD: Concept of Perception in Vedanta Darshna and Modern Mathematical Sciences; Part C: History of Mathematics in the Near East; MILO GARDNER: The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll, Attested Short Term and Long Term; K.V. MARDIA: Omar Khayyam, Rene Descartes and Solutions to Algebraic Equations; GREGG DE YOUNG: A New Source of Evidence for the Lost Arabic Translations of Euclid's Elements. Part D: History of Mathematics in Europe and America; J.S. CHAHAL: Pell's Equation and the Unity of Mathematics; ELART VON COLLANI: History, State of the Art and Future of the Science of Stochastics; B. S. YADAV: C[a, b] as the Backbone of Evolution of Functional Analysis; JEAN-PAUL PIER: Harmonic Analysis: A Historical Manifold during the XXth Century; VITALI MILMAN: From Functional Analysis to Asymptotic Geometric Analysis.